A judge in Harris County, Texas, the execution capital of the country, recommended earlier this month overturning a man’s death sentence, finding that he received ineffective legal assistance at trial. In a highly unusual 158-page court filing, Judge Natalia Cornelio found that Jeffery Prevost’s court-appointed lawyers unreasonably delayed their investigation into mitigating evidence — information … Read more
A 50-year-old man on Texas’ death row who has maintained his innocence for more than two decades was executed on Wednesday, according to multiple reports. Ivan Cantu, who was convicted and sentenced to death by a jury in the 2000 killing of his cousin and the cousin’s fiancée, was killed by lethal injection at 6:47 … Read more
A Texas high school has canceled its spring production of “The Laramie Project,” a play about the aftermath of the 1998 vicious murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming. Timber Creek High School administrators emailed parents on Friday to say that the play would be canceled but did not provide an explanation, … Read more
Brett Cross, whose son died in the 2022 mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, said in a TikTok video Monday night that he was arrested earlier in the day for cursing in a county commissioners’ meeting. “I was literally arrested for saying ‘f**k’ in a commissioner’s court because Mariano Pargas wants to sit … Read more
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared conflicted over far-reaching social media laws in Texas and Florida aiming to control how platforms moderate content — particularly ones that are political in nature. The justices invoked everything from how the law could impact the handmade craft online marketplace Etsy, and whether Google-owned Gmail could delete the accounts … Read more
The US Supreme Court seems torn over whether to trigger a radical transformation of the internet. The nation’s highest court heard arguments Monday over state laws in Florida and Texas that restrict how platforms like Facebook and YouTube moderate speech. If the court lets them take effect, social media feeds could look very different, with … Read more
A new front in America’s culture wars will reach the Supreme Court on Monday as the justices hear two cases stemming from controversial laws in Texas and Florida regulating social media bans. The laws aim to block social media companies from banning users based on their political views — even if users violate platform policies. … Read more
Ashok Veeraraghavan is a professor at George R. Brown School of Engineering Texas: Indian origin trailblazing computer engineer and professor Ashok Veeraraghavan has been awarded the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in engineering, one of the highest academic honours in Texas. The Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST), which presents this award … Read more
James Ybarra, who was arrested on drug charges in 2014, filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the city of Houston and the former police officer who arrested him after a Texas court found he had been wrongfully convicted. According to the lawsuit, which HuffPost has obtained and viewed, it says that in August 2014, … Read more
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk moved the spacecraft and satellite communications company’s state of incorporation to Texas on Wednesday, as the billionaire attempts to move his many companies out of Delaware following an unfavorable ruling in state court. “SpaceX has moved its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas!” Musk wrote in a post on X, … Read more
